Advances in Atmospheric Radiation:Theories,Models,and Their Applications.PartⅡ:Radiative Transfer Models and Related Applications

The subject of“atmospheric radiation”includes not only fundamental theories on atmospheric gaseous absorption and the scattering and radiative transfer of particles(molecules,cloud,and aerosols),but also their applications in weather,climate,and atmospheric remote sensing,and is an essential part of the atmospheric sciences.This review includes two parts(Part I and PartⅡ);following the first part on gaseous absorption and particle scattering,this part(PartⅡ)reports the progress that has been made in radiative transfer theories,models,and their common applications,focusing particularly on the contributions from Chinese researchers.The recent achievements on radiative transfer models and methods developed for weather and climate studies and for atmospheric remote sensing are firstly reviewed.Then,the associated applications,such as surface radiation estimation,satellite remote sensing algorithms,radiative parameterization for climate models,and radiative-forcing related climate change studies are summarized,which further reveals the importance of radiative transfer theories and models.

Advances in Atmospheric Radiation:Theories,Models,and Their Applications.PartⅠ:Atmospheric Gas Absorption and Particle Scattering

Atmospheric radiation is a major branch of atmospheric physics that encompasses the fundamental theories of atmospheric absorption,particle scattering(aerosols and clouds),and radiative transfer.Specifically,the simulations of atmospheric gaseous absorption and scattering properties of particles are the essential components of atmospheric radiative transfer models.Atmospheric radiation has important applications in weather,climate,data assimilation,remote sensing,and atmospheric detection studies.In PartⅠ,a comprehensive review of the progress in the field of gas absorption and particle scattering research over the past 30 years with a particular emphasis on the contributions from Chinese scientists is presented.The review of gas absorption includes the construction of absorption databases,the impact of different atmospheric absorption algorithms on radiative calculations,and their applications in weather and climate models and remote sensing.The review on particle scattering starts with the theoretical and computational methods and subsequently explores the optical modeling of aerosols and clouds in remote sensing and atmospheric models.Additionally,the paper discusses potential future research directions in this field.

Estimation of Thermal Imaging System Operating Range Based on Background Radiation

Traditional operating range prediction methods assume that the atmospheric radiances in a target path and a background path are equal. But they are different in a real-world environment. To solve this problem,the influence of atmospheric radiance on operating range prediction is analyzed in this paper. Range estimation model in thermal imaging based on background radiation（ REBR） is proposed. Infrared image radiometric calibration is used to calculate the background radiation of a system entrance pupil. The result shows that,compared with traditional operating range prediction methods,the REBR method is more suitable for the actual atmospheric transmission process and the physical process of infrared imaging.

Sources of IR Radiation in the Earth’s Atmosphere in Connection with the PeTa Effect

The PeTa (Perelman-Tatartchenko) effect is the radiation of the energy of a first-order phase transition during the transition from a less condensed phase to a more condensed one. The effect was independently discovered by M. Perelman and the author of this paper. Six papers on the PeTa effect have been published in this journal over the past nine years. They are devoted to the development of PeTa models to explain the following phenomena: IR radiation from cold surfaces, cavitation luminescence/sonoluminescence (CL/SL), laser-induced bubble luminescence (LIBL), and vapor bubble luminescence (VBL) in underwater geysers. This paper describes the sources of PeTa radiation in the Earth’s atmosphere. These sources of infrared radiation have been investigated by numerous research groups, but their interpretation either does not exist at all, or it is erroneous. The following phenomena are specifically considered: PeTa radiation during the formation of clouds and fog;a pulse laser based on the PeTa radiation;condensation explosions as sources of PaTa radiation;measurement of the concentration of water vapor in the atmosphere using PeTa radiation;atmospheric scintillation of infrared radiation in the atmosphere due to the PeTa effect;PeTa radiation as a source of comfort for the igloo;the influence of PeTa radiation on living organisms;PeTa radiation due to characteristics of tropical storms;PeTa radiation as a possible precursor to earthquakes. The problem of global warming, which worries everyone, as it turns out, is also associated with the PeTa effect.

CLIMATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ATMOSPHERIC NET RADIATION OVER CHINA

In terms of ERBE and ISCCP data.and measured/calculated surface net radiation, computation is performed of the climatic characteristics of ANR(atmospheric net radiation)across China alongside with the discussion and relations to other two kinds of radiation and contributing factors.Evidence suggests a high linear correlation of ANR with atmosphere-absorbed shortwave radiation.whereby can be established a general expression for ANR,which decreases more sharply as a function of altitude and increases slightly with latitude in summer,and changes uniformly in winter.Eventually,a comparison is made of the findings presented in this paper and literatures regarding the ANR pattern and magnitudes,indicating their great difference.

THE ABSORPTION OF SOLAR RADIATION BY AEROSOL ATMOSPHERE

The two-stream approximation is applied to solve the multiple scattered radiation transfer equations for an inhomogeneous aerosol atmosphere.The accurate absorption of water vapor,ozone,carbon dioxide and molecular oxygen is calculated.Calculations have been carried out band by band for the beating rate of atmosphere.The results show that the effect of aerosols on solar heating of the atmosphere is significant.

Model of soybean NDVI change based on time series

Normalized Difference Vegetation Index(NDVI)has been found to have good correlations with many physical properties of soybean surfaces.Due to the factors of air temperature,humidity,solar radiation,soil moisture,etc.,NDVI of soybean varies dynamically in a day.The establishment of the soybean NDVI prediction model at different times in a day can effectively modify this variation.The soybean NDVI values are continuously monitored in hours during soybean seeding,flowering&podding and maturating stages by way of Green Seeker.Results show that the trend of NDVI change every day in the three stages is taken on as a reverse parabola.The NDVI value reaches to the maximum at 8 am or 9 am and decreases to its minimum at 2 pm before a moderate rise.A model for intraday and long-term NDVI change for soybean is built.The test of the model with independent data indicates that the precision meets the demands,with the root mean square error(RMSE)of each day being 3.95,5.45 and 2.86 for the seeding stage,the bean podding stage and the maturation period,respectively.The prediction RMSEs of the soybean NDVI model for soybeans of the three stages for the fifth day are 5.75,2.65 and 5.51,respectively and the prediction RMSEs for the sixth day are 9.74,2.82 and 14.04,respectively according to the data from the first four days.

Measuring boundary-layer height under clear and cloudy conditions using three instruments

Boundary-layer height （BLH） under clear, altostratus and low stratus cloud conditions were measured by GPS sounding, wind profiler radar, and micro-pulse lidar during the atmospheric radiation measurement experiment from Sep. to Dec. 2008 in Shouxian, Anhui, China. Results showed that during daytime or nighttime, regardless of cloud conditions, the GPS sounding was the most accurate method for measuring BLH. Unfortunately, because of the long time gap between launchings, sounding data did not capture the diurnal evolution of the BLH. Thus, wind profile radar emerged as a promising instrument for direct and continuous measurement of the mixing height during the daytime, accurately determining BLH using the structure parameter of the electromagnetic refractive index. However, during nighttime, radar was limited by weak signal extraction and did not work well for determining the BLH of the stable boundary layer, often recording the BLH of the residual layer. While micro-pulse lidar recorded the evolution of BLH, it overestimated the BLH of the stable boundary layer. This method also failed to work under cloudy conditions because of the influence of water vapor. Future work needs to develop a method to determine BLH that combines the complimentary features of all three algorithms.